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Direct linkLin, Angel M. Y.; Lo, Yuen Yi – Language and Education, 2017
There has been a rich literature on the role of language in learning and on its role in knowledge (co-)construction in the science classroom. This literature, rooted in social semiotics theories and sociocultural theories, discussed research conducted largely in contexts where students are learning content in their first language (L1). In this…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Teaching Methods
Chen, Katherine Hoi Ying – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
Li Wei (1995) notes that relatively little sociolinguistic work on bilingualism has attempted to analyze and compare the complex relationships between aspects of language choice and code-switching among subgroups of the same community. This study aims to investigate the co-existence of two structurally different Cantonese-English code-switching…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Bilingualism
Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
The notion of language dominance is often defined in terms of proficiency. We distinguish dominance, as a property of the bilingual mind and a concept of language knowledge, from proficiency, as a concept of language use. We discuss ways in which language dominance may be assessed, with a focus on measures of mean length of utterance (MLU).…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency
